“A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"An author departs, he does not die." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding." ~Dinah M Craik
"How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
“It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman
“[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman
"Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." ~Dinah M. Craik
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts not measured words, but pouring them right out, just as they are.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
VERSE
“Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,—
But we forget not, never can forget.”
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Source: Goodreads
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